ahahaha. I replied to this and then it got eaten by lj, and I was too fed up to rewrite it so I saved it to reply. That's why you're getting a reply almost 3 weeks later!
Ah, the friends feature, neverending source of Angst. I don't know if it would be this emotionally laden if it was called diffently. It's a really unfortunate choice of word.
I don't know though. I mean, sure, it's a loaded word, but even if it wasn't called "friends", adding someone would mean "I want to read you" and taking someone off would mean "I'm no longer interested in you." And even though I really do view my list as a reading list, I think there would still be a strange feeling attached to it.
Then I found out that's it apparently A Huge Thing.
What's funny is when I first got on lj I was very uncomfortable "friending" people without...building a relationship with them first. But as I went on, I was like dude, it's not about friends, it's about what I want to read! And then it was fine. But then, when I started to really care for some people on the list, it got all weird again...because some people I do consider friends, some people just friendly acquaintances...and some people not friendly at all; I'm just interested in what they have to say in a fannish or intellectual capacity. So my arc of feeling toward my list is the opposite of yours...awkward to comfortable to awkward again.
What annoys me are locked journals. Okay, I totally get why people would lock their journals, but this "Comment if you want to be added"? I don't know if I want to read their journal if I can't read their journal.
Yeah, I've never really been interested in people who have locked journals. Well, actually, one--I got to know her through her comments, and enjoyed what she had to say, and so friended her, and eventually she friended me back and I could see her locked posts. But I've noticed that a lot of people with flocked journals don't comment elsewhere, so I never get to know them, so why bother trying to get in their journals?
I finally don't have to look up my a href's and img src's any more
Ha! I totally still need to look up img src...I usually type scr! But yeah, the color is so much easier on the rich text thing. I'm using semagic now, which has buttons like the rich text editor, but when you click on them it inserts the code into your text window so you CAN deal with the code by hand if you'd like. I love it!!!!
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Ah, the friends feature, neverending source of Angst. I don't know if it would be this emotionally laden if it was called diffently. It's a really unfortunate choice of word.
I don't know though. I mean, sure, it's a loaded word, but even if it wasn't called "friends", adding someone would mean "I want to read you" and taking someone off would mean "I'm no longer interested in you." And even though I really do view my list as a reading list, I think there would still be a strange feeling attached to it.
Then I found out that's it apparently A Huge Thing.
What's funny is when I first got on lj I was very uncomfortable "friending" people without...building a relationship with them first. But as I went on, I was like dude, it's not about friends, it's about what I want to read! And then it was fine. But then, when I started to really care for some people on the list, it got all weird again...because some people I do consider friends, some people just friendly acquaintances...and some people not friendly at all; I'm just interested in what they have to say in a fannish or intellectual capacity. So my arc of feeling toward my list is the opposite of yours...awkward to comfortable to awkward again.
What annoys me are locked journals. Okay, I totally get why people would lock their journals, but this "Comment if you want to be added"? I don't know if I want to read their journal if I can't read their journal.
Yeah, I've never really been interested in people who have locked journals. Well, actually, one--I got to know her through her comments, and enjoyed what she had to say, and so friended her, and eventually she friended me back and I could see her locked posts. But I've noticed that a lot of people with flocked journals don't comment elsewhere, so I never get to know them, so why bother trying to get in their journals?
I finally don't have to look up my a href's and img src's any more
Ha! I totally still need to look up img src...I usually type scr! But yeah, the color is so much easier on the rich text thing. I'm using semagic now, which has buttons like the rich text editor, but when you click on them it inserts the code into your text window so you CAN deal with the code by hand if you'd like. I love it!!!!